kaffe progresses in Debian

Yes! New snapshot upload. The zip bug on powerpc has been fixed by Riccardo Mottola, Dalibor Topic and Michael Koch so Kaffe is now in a very good shape on powerpc! Also, lot of progresses have been made in other areas (kjc, awt, swing, bug fixes,...) but it seems bugs has been introduced in GNU JAXP. We still can not run Struts on Kaffe.
What next?

• bug fixed
• build with gcc-3.4, g++-3.4, libffi3-dev
• running Struts

Wonderful week!

Monday
First cooking courses with friends. Lot of wine, lot of fun, lot of learning...
Tuesday
Cook for my wife a part of what I learnt.
Wednesday
Rest.
Thursday
Concert with the conductor Daniel KAWKA and the first prize at the highly prestigious international Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 2003, Severin von ECKARDSTEIN (piano).
Friday
Friends for diner and concert from the father of our friends (french pop-poetic songs)
Saturday
Expo at Bruxelles from Karel Appel from CoBrA. (I think I'll visit the CoBrA Museum at Amstelveen, NL soon!..)

The man who was not here...

... well, this time I was ;-) chatting with Dalibor on #kaffe, it seems the 'jar on powerpc issue' could be resolved by merging the java.util.zip code from Classpath to Kaffe. After some explanations of the build system and the location of the classes, I did merge the 'zip' code into Kaffe, build the result and it worked! Dalibor will not accept the patch 'as is' but he told me he'll try to apply a solution in a few days. I'm waiting for some other patches and will package another far better, working on powerpc kaffe snapshot.

My Debian Day!

It's been a long time!.. so I decided to take one day of Debian development. It started yesterday with tests on the kaffe package, and upload of the new:

• commons-daemon package which announce the start of the work on the Tomcat5 packaging in Debian.

I went sleeping at 3am. Today:

• libxml-commons-resolver1.1-java: resolved the CatalogManager.properties bug
• commons-daemon: import to the Alioth's pkg-java project cvs repository
• libcommons-net-java: new upstream + new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libjazzy-java: resolved the AMD64 build bug + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libjdom-java: imported to pkg-java's cvs
• libgnuinet-java: new upstream + new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libjexl-java: new upstream + new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libgnucrypto-java: new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libgnujaf-java: new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libgnumail-java: new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• libgnujaxp-java: new debian/watch file + updated in pkg-java's cvs
• updated the tomcat5 alioth's tasks

I am Mario!

Like some Eric Schubert, Gergely Nagy, and Joshua Kwan, I made the VideoGame Test and...
I am Mario.
I like to jump around, and would lead a fairly serene and aimless existence if it weren't for my friends always getting into trouble. I love to help out, even when it puts me at risk. I seem to make friends with people who just can't stay out of trouble. What Video Game Character Are You?

Debian experimental kaffe runs Tomcat4 on powerpc!

Free Java environments are not as full as proprietary ones... but in some cases, they are far better! After having multiple problems with IBM's proprietary JDK on Powerpc, I'm managing to speed up my transition to Free Java JDK's/JRE's.
First, there is no Java plugin for Mozilla in the latest IBM's JDK on Powerpc, there is now gcjwebplugin, running on many architectures! For several weeks now IBM's JDK (1.4.1 and 1.4.2) does not run at all on my Debian/sid powerpc. I cannot run ant, tomcat, nothing. I got a javacore_blablabla file with a lot of debug information. SableVM, gic/gcj, Kaffe and JamVM already run Ant (nearly) without problem.

Update: a hack with an envvar is necessary: 'export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6'
The next peace I need is Tomcat4. It's now done (screenshot). The work around was to remove the xmlParserAPIs.jar and xercesImpl.jar from the tomcat4 directory (/usr/share/tomcat4/common/lib) and replace them with a symlink to gnujaxp.jar (in /usr/share/java). And nearly everything was fine (Struts does not seem to work, but all the servlet examples did work, and every JSP examples did work except two: one because the mail api was not in the tomcat classpath and the other because of an exception in org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service... I think it was the same exception that occured with Struts.
JDEE for Emacs seems very bounded to proprietary JDK's but I'd like to investigate a little more to have it working with free JDK's as I use it for sometimes now and I'm very happy with it. Another great environment that would be cool to run is Eclipse...
Long life to Free Java! ;-)

gcjwebplugin rocks!

Michael Koch told me gcjwebplugin entered Debian unstable yesterday on powerpc. Not yet available but apt-get source and rebuilt it myself just works on powerpc, thanks Michael (upstream and Debian Maintainer).
I tried it and found some bugs but I have also been surprised it works very well with an old applet. I was looking for 'etch' because I did not remember it from Toys Story and found this site: http://www.etch-a-sketch.com/html/onlineetch.htm with an 'Etch-A-Sketch' Applet. And it did work! ().
Many thanks Michael!

gjdoc progresses

Soon... I promise...

Aaron Spuler's Mozilla themes

After posting a screen shot from my Mozilla browser, several people asked me about the theme... The theme is called Apollo and it was made by Aaron Spuler. There are nice themes accessible from his site: MozThemes.tk

Kaffe status in Debian

I posted a summary with comments about the bugs of Kaffe in Debian. Some are Debian related, others are related to Kaffe (upstream)... Will we be in time for Sarge?..